September 11, 2006 - If you call yourself a Nintendo fan, there's a good chance that you're already well aware of and anticipating this week's events. Later this week, Nintendo of Japan, America and Europe will hold three separate, but related shows, all of them focused on the company's upcoming Wii console. For Nintendo fans, this week has the potential to be as big as the Electronic Entertainment Expo for news and game showings. In fact, by the end of the week we're expecting to know Wii's release date and price across the globe - and that's just for starters.

IGN has editors attending all three events and we've been giving ample hype to each showing. Now, though, Nintendo of Europe has officially built up its London-based Wii shindig, which kicks off overseas this Friday. On its official website, Nintendo of Europe posted the following message, which we've quoted verbatim:

On Friday, September 15, Nintendo will host a huge invite-only event in London. The subject: Wii. Hundreds of invitations have been sent out to European press, to join us on this momentous occasion. While that unfortunately means the general public isn't able to attend, it doesn't mean you have to miss out on the biggest Nintendo news of the year.

On Friday we'll have full coverage of the Wii event right here, so you can find out the official word straight from the source as soon as it's made public.

What's it all about? Well, you'll just have to wait and see. But as the text on the invitation card teasingly states:

All of you will be excited, intrigued and interested in what we have to show you.

This is an event you must not miss. Wii promise.

Nintendo itself bolded the last two lines, not us. The bolded font means it's important, we think.

The events begin this Wednesday with Nintendo of Japan's showing, which is likely to reveal everything about Wii, thus spoiling any surprises that may have been saved for the American and European shows. And you know, we don't even care so long as we finally get a firm price and release date.

Sounds like it's definitely going to be the day where we find out everything.